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Professor Arnaud Dellis comes to Manoa via Belgium, Paris and Ithaca, New York. Raised in Belgium, he earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Liege (Belgium), his Master's from DELTA, the Joint Ecole Normale Superieure and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris before earning his doctorate in Economics at Cornell University.
He arrived at Manoa in July and jumped right into course preparations for this Fall's Econ 606, Advanced Microeconomics. His research interests include Political Economics and Public Economics, which developed while he was a researcher at the University of Liege before starting his doctoral studies. In the next year or so, Professor Dellis hopes to take on several projects on the comparative effects of electoral systems.
"Those projects are theory ones," he said. "Also there are results we have found that I would like to test. But since several of those voting rules have hardly been used, it is not possible to do an econometric analysis. So I would like to go more towards economic experiments and see whether those results could be replicated in a lab." He added that there is also a theory based project on Social Security reforms that he would like to take up. "This project is part of my research agenda on issue salience," he said.
When asked how he was enjoying his new surroundings, Professor Dellis said, "I very much like Honolulu. Coming from Europe, the mix of population we observe here, with a large population from Asia, is something new to me and quite exciting. I've been discovering lots of new things and that is extremely stimulating." It's very nice to be in an atmosphere where different cultures meet, he added. UHM students--graduate and undergraduate alike--can look forward to working with Professor Dellis in microeconomics and public economic courses in coming semesters.
Professor Timothy Halliday joins the Manoa faculty with a joint appointment to the Economics Department and the John A. Burns School of Medicine. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he earned his Bachelors in Mathematics and Economics at Boston College where he was Phi Beta Kappa and his doctorate from Princeton University where he was awarded the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars.
Professor Halliday's research interests include Economic Development and Health Economics. He is currently pursuing several research issues, which include exploring the relationship between social rank and mortality using U.S. Air Force health records. "I also have some ideas concerning migration including work on endogenous peer effects as well as estimating the elasticity of migrant durations with respect to coyote prices," he added. (Coyote prices are the fees paid to a border smuggler to help illegal migrants enter their destination country.) In addition, he expects to work with Economics Professor Sumner La Croix on a project involving migration to Hawaii in the early 20th century.
Since arriving at Manoa this summer, Professor Halliday has found himself settling into his new home and surroundings rather well. "I like Hawaii,î he said, "the food is great and the weather is better." When asked how he came to study economics, he said, "Economics was alluring because it applied rigorous analytical reasoning to help better understand and ultimately solve social problems." Although he is not teaching this Fall, UHM students can look forward to working with Professor Halliday in undergraduate microeconomics courses and Econ 628, Econometrics, in coming semesters.
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